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  Moonlight conjures blaqueer magic

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  ARZU KARADUMAN GSU School of Film Media and Theatre

  April 05, 2017

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  Moonlight is washed by the liquidity of the color blue from its beginning to the end; even before the ...
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  You Can’t Conjure as a Coven of One

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  Daren Fowler Georgia State University

  April 05, 2017

  They spoke of Lorde’s erotics---the “measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos ...
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  “The Persistence of “Wild Style”: Hip-Hop and Music Video Culture at the Intersection of Performance and Provocation

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  Michele Prettyman Mercer University

  April 30, 2020

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  times wielded bluntly, while at others nuanced and precise. Beginning in the twentieth century, ...
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  Meme merge

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  Lauren Michele Jackson University of Chicago

  September 05, 2016

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  of meme merge reintroduces or at least reminds us where the human user fits in the presumed ...
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  Miles Davis, Spike Lee, and the Sonic Establishing Shot

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  Charles P. Linscott Ohio University

  April 28, 2020

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  the music. At the beginning, all four songs play simultaneously in a nearly indiscernible cacophony ...
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  The HBO Show They Didn’t Get to Make: Comedy Central’s South Side

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  djones Georgia State University

  February 24, 2020

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  a platform that allows for uncensored content—in language at least—Comedy Central demonstrates its desire to ...
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  Gender, Ethnicity, and Subtraction of Blackness in Mohammad Rasoulof's (Trans)National Cinema

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  Mehran Abdollahi The University of British Columbia

  February 25, 2025

  Persian poetry and music. The narrative begins with Golnar’s dance with  dayereh-zangi  (tambourine) in ...
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  On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence

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  Antar Tichavakunda University of Southern California

  March 02, 2015

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  On Watching and Seeing: The Limits of Cell Phone Evidence Racial Stereotypes Cellphone Witness Week blackness Curator's Note In a press conference following a police shooting a reporter asked a police captain, “Are you basically saying this guy was t ...
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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  November 12, 2014

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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games whiteness video games racism blackness Curator's Note The purpose of this discussion is to examine how the normalization of Whiteness and masculinity within video games leads ...